148 THE HORSE AND ITS DISEASES. 



The horse to have bran mashes, and after the bowels 

 are open, stop the above ball, and give the following 

 every day for nine days in a ball : — 



Black Antimony 3 drachms. 



Mtre 2 „ 



Sulphur 4 ,, 



The animal to have warm clothing, and walking 

 exercise morning and evening. 



Chest Founder. 



The muscles are occasionally the seat of a singular 

 and somewhat mysterious disease. The horse has con- 

 siderable stiffness in the movement of his limbs, but 

 evidently not referable to the lower extremities. There 

 is tenderness about the muscles of the breast, and 

 occasionally swelling ; I believe it to be nothing more 

 than rheumatism, produced by suffering the horse to 

 remain too long tied up, and exposed to the cold, or 

 riding him against a very bleak wind. Sometimes a 

 considerable degree of fever accompanies this, but 

 bleeding, physic, a rowel in the chest, and warm em- 

 brocation composed of 



Liquor Ammonia 1 ounce. 



Spirits of Turpentine 1 , , 



Spirits of Camphor 1 ,, 



Olive Oil 1 pint. 



Tincture of Opium 1 ounce. 



Mixed together, and rubbed in every second day, for 

 three minutes at the time. 



The horse to have warm clothing and gentle exercise. 



Fever. 



' The fevers of horses bear very little analogy to' those 

 of the human body, and require a different treatment. 

 Many writers on farriery, as Mr. White said, described 

 a great variety of fevers, but their observations appear 



